The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-16
Democratic Executive Commit
tee for Rapides.
JAMEssJEFFRIEs, Charm
ANOTHER REFsRM Ro0RBACK.

It is no small work to head OFT the
Reformers in their constant efforts to
have the dear people believe that they
are horribly treated by "the ring"
when they, the sanity Reformers, are
30 honest.
The last boomerang was fired by
brother Puckette's back action, revoI-
wing blunderbuss, at.the McEneryites
of Catahoula, whom it charges with
having held a mass meeting to elect
delegates "upon notice as short as
that which the hawk gives the
chicken"
Right here, we will proceed to de
monstrate that the McEneryites of
Catahoula were superbly magnanimous
in comparison with the Reformers of
Rapides and East Feliciana, who have
given much less time to their people
to ''stand and deliver
The same meeting of the Parish
Executive Committee of Catalonia
that elected DR.. Taylor as delegate
to the State Central Committee, which
met in New Orleans on the goth .ot
October, called the mass meeting
which was held last Saturday, Novem-
Der S, and elected the McEnery dele
cation to the State Convention. There
is to begin with, s.at1s least fifteen days
intervening between the goth of Octo-
Der and the 9Th of November. But
if we are not mistaken, the meeting of
the Executive Committee of Catahoula
which called this mass meeting, was
held about the 10th of October, which
woald increase the notice to twenty
five days.
The Rapides committee, presided
over by Mr.. Jeffries, r.met on the 9Th
inst, and ordered primary elections
for the 10Th inst, which leaves In.
thirteen clear, days to work in. The
East Feliciana committee met on the
2d.inst, and called mass meeting for
the 18th inst, giving but eleven days
notice to the people of that parish.
At the. rate at which the Reformers
are going it, it is Qnite possible that
their executive committees will meet
without public notice and call and
hold primaries or meetings before the
"dear people" have learned that their
executive committee was assembled.
The complaint of the Shreveport
Democrat, which was reproduced in
the Picayaae OF the 9th inst, is an
other Reform Roorback.
Is it not ?-[ Capitolian Advocate.
No better time than the present
and no better place than Bauer &
Wells to purchase your winter sup
plies. Prices are low on all goods to
be found there.
-THE grand success of the Demo-
cratic meeting at Shreveport, at which
Gov. McEnery, Senator Eustis, ex-
Senator Jonas, Major Burke, Hon. E..
w. Sutherlin and other gentlemen
addressed the meeting, impelled the
leading supporters Of Gen. Nichols
to attempt to counteract the effect of
the meeting by having grand torch
light procession and meeting during
the fair The grand torchlight pro-
cession is thus described by the Times
of the 18th inst:
Instead of one thousand torches
ablaze, as heralded several days in adj
vance, there were by actual connt only
1s4 torches in the grand procession,
and these were carries! ny 81 boys, II
niggers, 9 gentlemen from DeSoto,
10 from Bossier aud 5 from Rapides,
making ioa, which if deducted from
1874, would leave only 81 voters from
Caddo in the procession.
We woull like to know who were
The five from Rapides. The reporter
has evidently made mistake.
-SpLENpIE fianneis at Bauer 4
Weit's at 90 cents yard. Good hnd-
seys at 10 cents yard. Good jeans
at la1 cents a yard-and all else in
proportion.
Catalonia parish, the first to elect
has instructed her delegates to the
State Convention for Gov. McEncrv.
Catalonia has seven votes.